How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
KHALIL GIBRANWhen you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
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The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
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You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
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Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
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Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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